sixties, and who was then joined by his singing-
songwriting older brother, Ray, to create one of
the most creative and productive rock groups of
all time---had suffered a stroke. He's made slow,
steady progress since then, and is now embark-
ing on a short American tour to promote "I Will
Be Me," an album of new material. Before the
stroke, and after the Kinks stopped playing to-
gether, in the mid-nineties, Dave put together a
tight, no-nonsense band and was performing
hard-rocking sets comprising material from both
the Kinks catalogue and his own solo releases.
Hopes are high in Kinks Kountry.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM
Broadway at 63rd St. (212-546-2656)---May 23:
A Hawk and a Hacksaw, the Albuquerque duo
made up of the accordionist Jeremy Barnes and
the violinist Heather Trost, perform music from
their new album, "You Have Already Gone to
the Other World," which was inspired by Sergei
Parajanov's lm "Shadows of Forgotten Ances-
tors." Based on Balkan and Turkish folk melo-
dies and traditions, the music branches off from
there, freely incorporating other ethnic in uences
and styles, not excluding rock. It's swirling, per-
cussive, and intriguing. A screening of the lm
will accompany the performance.
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn (718-453-6343)---May
30: The local pop-punk band Robot Princess de-
livers lyrical peaks of poignancy and humor, ham-
mered home by noisy guitar shredding. With
Pinelawn Empire, whose bitter acoustic rock is
made palatable by the singer Joe Vetter's vitri-
olic howl, and the stream-of-consciousness Staten
Island folk singer Phoebe Blue.
HIGHLINE BALLROOM
431 W. 16th St. (212-414-5994)---May 23: The
singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, who hit it big
six years ago with the wry single "Love Song,"
has crafted several piano-driven anthems that
have found a place in fans' hearts and made her
a multi-platinum-selling artist. "Brave," the new
single from her forthcoming album, "The Blessed
Unrest," has a completely au-courant pop sound
(she enlisted Jack Antonoff, of Fun., to help write
it), and it was inspired by a friend's struggle to
come out of the closet.
SULLIVAN ROOM
218 Sullivan St. (212-252-2151)---May 27: The
U.K. radio-show host Benji B brings in FaltyDL
(see Critic's Notebook), along with the Austrian
producer and composer Dorian Concept, Dub-
lin's Orquesta, and Finland's Somepoe. (For more
information, visit redbullmusicacademy.com.)
285 KENT
285 Kent Ave., Brooklyn (No phone)---May 23:
The Australian garage-rock quintet Total Con-
trol is a supergroup of sorts, but only for those
starstruck by the now-flourishing Melbourne
punk scene. The band's ace in the hole is Mikey
Young, a guitarist, engineer, and songwriter who
has mobilized a large base of punk-oriented vinyl
junkies through his work with the Ooga Boogas,
Brain Children, and, most notably, the Eddy Cur-
rent Suppression Ring. Total Control does well
in New York, so expect a crowd at this gra tti-
lined industrial venue. The band is joined by
Raspberry Bulbs, Crazy Spirit, and Survival, a
proggy post-hardcore out t fronted by Hunter
Hunt-Hendrix, of Liturgy.
THE WELLMONT THEATRE
5 Seymour St., Montclair, N.J. (973-783-9500)---
May 22: The nu-metal act Korn, whose blistering
hard rock, sinister motifs, and vile lyrics terri ed
the fearful parents of the nineties, recently terri ed
some of its fans with its tenth album, "The Path
of Totality," which experiments with dubstep.
WEST PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
165 W. 86th St. (212-362-4890)---May 28: Hen-
drik Weber's unclassi able avant-electronic proj-
ect Pantha du Prince enlists the percussion en-
semble the Bell Laboratory to present the U.S.
première of "Elements of Light," which was rst
recorded with a three-ton carillon of fty bronze
bells. It is an instrument that's normally found
in a church's bell tower (some carillons are over
a hundred tons), so this is not a concert to be
taken lightly. (For more information, visit red-
bullmusicacademy.com.)
WILLIAMSBURG PARK
50 Kent Ave., at N. 12th St., Brooklyn (800-745-
3000)---May 26: The Shins kick off the summer
music series here with their sunshiny, melodic pop.
The experimental Philly rockers Man Man open.
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JAZZ AND STANDARDS
BIRDLAND
315 W. 44th St. (212-581-3080)---May 21-25:
Jane Monheit. On her new album, "The Heart
of the Matter," the vocalist Monheit goes where
her fancy takes her, mixing the Beatles, Ivan Lins,
Randy Newman, and a "Sesame Street" anthem
into her dappled repertoire.
CAFÉ CARLYLE
Carlyle Hotel, Madison Ave. at 76th St. (212-
744-1600)---May 21-June 8: Now in her early
forties, Lea Salonga may no longer be the ga-
mine of "Miss Saigon" fame, but experience has
deepened her vocal skills and her power to en-
chant an intimate room.
CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ
29 Cornelia St. (212-989-9319)---May 23: The
members of the long-standing trio Open Loose
(the bassist Mark Helias, the saxophonist Tony
Malaby, and the drummer Tom Rainey) still have
the ability to engage and surprise each other, and,
in turn, their audience.
DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA
Broadway at 60th St. (212-258-9595)---May
21-26 and May 28-June 2: For the rst part of
a two-week run, the pianist Bill Charlap leads
his longtime and perfectly calibrated trio, featur-
ing Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Wash-
ington on drums; the following week, the re-
nowned Ron Carter steps in on bass.
IRIDIUM
1650 Broadway, at 51st St. (212-582-2121)---May
22-25: "Electric Miles." The trumpeters Randy
Brecker and Jeremy Pelt take on the legacy of Miles
Davis's fusion epoch with the assistance of the
drummer Steve Smith and the guitarist Paul Bol-
lenback, and the bassist Lonnie Plaxico.
JAZZ STANDARD
116 E. 27th St. (212-576-2232)---May 22: The sax-
ophonist Noah Preminger, celebrating the release of
a new album, "Haymaker," is joined by a similarly
inquisitive player, the guitarist Ben Monder. May 23-
26: The soulful swagger of James Carter's saxophones
nds its comfort zone in his lean organ trio, which,
after nearly a decade of existence, is still hungry.
THE KITANO NEW YORK
66 Park Ave., at 38th St. (212-885-7119)---May
24: The imaginative saxophonist and composer
Ted Nash may be best known these days as a key
instrumentalist in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Or-
chestra, but his own engagements tend to reveal
his more adventurous side. His quartet, with Ron
Horton on trumpet, forgoes any additional sup-
port apart from an active bass-and-drum team.
(LE) POISSON ROUGE
158 Bleecker St. (212-505-3474)---May 25: Not
every conceptually advanced jazz guitarist has
played at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Fes-
tival, but Kurt Rosenwinkel had the honor last
April. He takes even more chances at this one-
night gig, a solo performance.
VILLAGE VANGUARD
178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St. (212-255-4037)---
May 21-26: Barry Harris. Elegant and incisive
bebop piano from a patriarchal gure whose sea-
soned trio includes the bassist Ray Drummond and
the drummer Leroy Williams, a longtime associate.
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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
FALTY TOWERS
It's a truism by now to
say that the Internet has
made music placeless
and ubiquitous; Andrew
Lustman, known
professionally as FaltyDL,
is a perfect example of this
principle. His work is a
combination of garage and
early-nineties electronica,
genres that grew out of an
exchange between American
and British artists. Lustman,
who is at the Sullivan Room
on May 27, has caught the
ear of Thom Yorke, among
others, and has a new album
called "Hardcourage" on
Ninja Tune. What makes
him an interesting figure is
that he has taken the populist
thump of garage and wound
a spiral around it, sometimes
hewing closely to the
accessible bass lines and soft
propulsion of the music,
sometimes weaving in cloudy
sounds and detached,
narcotized snatches of
singing. Like Yorke,
Lustman began by focussing
on certain preëxisting genres,
and then saw them through a
new, kaleidoscopic lens. He
makes dance music that has
no conflict between the
functional and the
uncanny---which was maybe
the point of dance music
all along.
---Sasha Frere-Jones
TOMER HANUKA
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)---"Impres-
sionism, Fashion, and Modernity." Through May
27. "Photography and the American Civil War."